2024-2025 NFL Season - Dak Prescott's MVP Tour Part 2
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Merrith
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Although 2 of these 3 teams won their first playoff game (Seahawks, Panthers), and the 3rd gave Brady's Bucs all they could handle behind the legend of Taylor Heinicke
patriots have S. Diggs @ Foxboro for an interview..even coming off ACL, if they manage to sign him, he'd be the instant #1 receiver in the Receiver room. Last year before the Tear he was on pace for 100 receptions and ~1000 yards with the Texans.
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Brahma
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Brahma
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Remember that Bugs Bunny baseball cartoon Bugs vs the Bankees?
WR1 Diggs!
TE Diggs!
Left tackle Diggs!
Corner back Diggs!
Kaines
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Your cookie would be a guaranteed slot in the playoffs. Seeding is a different deal all together. Much like we saw in college football this past year, not all Division(College Conference) Champions are equal.
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My issue with the idea is what if the division winner is only a game back yet played a much more difficult schedule? Of course the Rams were more than a game back last year due to injuries, schedule, and resting starters the last game.
People mad about the Vikings not getting a home game against a team that clearly had a tougher schedule and beat them?
Change the entire system based on outlier years?
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It's stupid to double penalize a team for being in a good division and double reward a team if theirs is shitty.
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Regime
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Well it’s like what you used to say in EQ to the young Dark Elves begging for loot at the log…
Get good
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Wombat
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My counter argument is every team doesn't face the same competition - or more accurately, level of competion. The AFC West and NFC North beat up on weak divisions and sent 6 teams to the playoffs, 5 of whom got bounced in their first game. So now you want (completely uncontrollable) differences in divisional rotations to also set playoff hosting and seeding in addition to already heavily factoring into the number of wildcards claimed?
With the current-best-in-division rules, I would emphasize that _in that division_ every team faces almost all the same competition, and the small number of opponents that aren't shared are (at least theoretically) scaled to the quality of each team. So yes, it sucks when a sub .500 team gets a home game, but more often than not that division got hosed on the rotation that year - something completely out of their control.
Until teams / divisions have more average parity, rewarding so much based simply on which divisions they ran into this year is a worse overall experience for teams / fans than the current rules.
With the current-best-in-division rules, I would emphasize that _in that division_ every team faces almost all the same competition, and the small number of opponents that aren't shared are (at least theoretically) scaled to the quality of each team. So yes, it sucks when a sub .500 team gets a home game, but more often than not that division got hosed on the rotation that year - something completely out of their control.
Until teams / divisions have more average parity, rewarding so much based simply on which divisions they ran into this year is a worse overall experience for teams / fans than the current rules.
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meStevo
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PFT made an interesting point, if your conference record becomes more important then you should perhaps play more of your conference instead of playing your division twice.
It's a fair point, but also illustrates a kind of slippery slope of a number of changes that should be considered if this happens.
It's a fair point, but also illustrates a kind of slippery slope of a number of changes that should be considered if this happens.
Kaines
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Then the goal posts simply move to "Who got screwed by playing their opposite conference division?" With 32 teams and only 17 games, there is no way to have perfect parity of schedule.
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Merrith
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I mean, you already play your whole division twice, an entire other division within your conference, and the teams in the other two divisions in your conference that finished in the same place in their division as you did in yours the previous year. That's 12 out of 17 games being in conference as it is.
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Wombat
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Re: Jameis, am I the only one that views this as the handful of remaining teams getting tired of Aaron and Russ negotiations?
Cleveland can't afford anyone, the Chargers can't afford a high cost backup (and already picked up Taylor Heinicke for that role), and both the Steelers and Giants picked up ~$4M options (in Mason and Jameis) they will suck for Manning with if they have to.
I still think at least one of Russ and/or Aaron will end up not getting signed and only serve as a midseason injury fill-in - and yes, The Vikings after a JJ injury are statistically one of the most likely outcomes.
Cleveland can't afford anyone, the Chargers can't afford a high cost backup (and already picked up Taylor Heinicke for that role), and both the Steelers and Giants picked up ~$4M options (in Mason and Jameis) they will suck for Manning with if they have to.
I still think at least one of Russ and/or Aaron will end up not getting signed and only serve as a midseason injury fill-in - and yes, The Vikings after a JJ injury are statistically one of the most likely outcomes.
If the playoffs move to conference standings then theY need to remove the divisions no more AFC/NFC east north south west.... Which I would dislike.
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